Bunsen餐厅最初是由厨师Tom Gleeson在都柏林创立的。他们在店内营造出一种都市和休闲的氛围,在他们的第一家海外分店中,融入了周围哥特式社区和当地酒吧文化的特色。墙壁上的窗帘让人想起了典型的邻里酒吧,餐厅两个入口之间的连接走廊则让我们想起邻近街道的通道。
Bunsen was originally founded in Dublin by the chef Tom Gleeson. Though as a brand they project an urban and casual atmosphere, for the opening of their first branch overseas, the restaurant incorporated recognisable features of the surrounding Gothic neighbourhood and local bar culture into its interior design. While curtains ornamenting the walls bring to mind the typical neighborhood bar, a connecting corridor between the two entrances of the restaurant remind us of passageways of the neighbouring streets.
Bunsen餐厅的核心是一个陶瓷长椅,沿着餐厅的墙壁弯曲(这是我们现代主义传统的一个亮点)。与该地区的其他设计一样,它蜿蜒的形状不是毫无意义的装饰,而是与人体相适应的。沿着室内走廊上的加泰罗尼亚拱顶,这些有机的形状与我们在当地建筑和室内设计中找到的城市记忆相呼应。这不是一个封闭的餐厅区域,而是一个流动的开放空间——很像它所处的地中海文化一样。
The centerpiece of Bunsen is a ceramic bench, which curves along the walls of the restaurant (a wink to our modernist heritage). Like other designs in the area, its sinuous shape is not gratuitously decorative, but also accommodating to the human figure. Along the Catalan vault constructed over the indoor corridor, these organic shapes play with the city’s memory we find encapsulated in the local architecture and interiors. The result is not a closed off restaurant area, but a fluid and open space – much like the Mediterranean culture it is situated in.